Overheard

"In my retirement days, I wanted to look back and say I did
something really worthwhile. Becoming a teacher was the only way I felt
I could do that."

—Former Green Bay Packer defensive lineman Gerald Williams
on his new career teaching 2nd grade in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North
Carolina.

"Our volunteers and staff come back with numerous stories where the
kids have computers in the classroom, and the teachers won't let them
turn them on."

—Dr. Paul Organ, executive director of APPLE Corps, an
advocacy organization for Atlanta public schools, on the need for
technology training for teachers.

"It seems our superintendents are voted out or have to leave the
island."

—Marty Walker, an English teacher at H. Grady Spruce High
School in Dallas, alluding to the hit TV show four years.

"Kids knowing that teachers know about guns is a good
thing."

—Ed Lockett, an art teacher at Tennessee High School in
Bristol, Tennessee, on why he signed up for a firearms training and
safety course offered by the Bristol school system this summer.

"George's opponent has been visiting schools lately. And sometimes,
when he does, he spends the night before at the home of a teacher.
Well, George spends every night with a teacher."

—Laura Bush, wife of the Republican candidate for president
and a former elementary school teacher and librarian, speaking at the
Republican convention in August.

Vol. 12, Issue 1, Page 15

Published in Print: August 1, 2000, as Overheard

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